Re: SELECT

"johnn" <john62_at_electronmail.com> wrote in message news:3DB09AD5.5FB6370_at_electronmail.com...
> Okay. Let's say I have a list of usernames in the table users. Let's
> say I have a list of bad users in the table blacklist. Now, let's say I
> want to select all the usernames from the table users that are not in
> the table blacklist? How do I do this? I was thinking of stuff like
> the following:
>
> select * from users where username not in (select * from blacklist);

select *
from users
where username not in (
select username
from blacklist);

> but it doesn't work.
>
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Received on Fri Oct 18 2002 - 19:19:25 CDT